The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05

Academy, at Oxford. The school is in troub
and is to be Investigated.
| The bedding in room of Mrs. John Gle
bach's residence in Baltimore, caught fire on Wee
nesday last and in atte apting to extinguish Il
flames Mrs. Gelbach was badly burned about II
face and hands. She is daughter of the la
Wiley Hunt, of Towsontown.
| We have heard nothing new in the "hulle
oats" business in the last week or ten days.
there is farmer in the county who allows hin
self to be taken in by this transparent trick aft,
the full expose of it that has appeared in Tn
UNION, we have no sympathy for him.
The bridge over the Patapsco river at
chester has been examined by competent eng
neers who say that it is unsafe for travel and r,
commend that it be closed. 1t is owned joint
| by Howard and Baltimore counties and the tw
will bear the expense of new structure.
"A prominent citizen of Chester county, Pa
who lately made an extended trip through th
West and South, wrote home from Florida a
follows: "The Phila, Wilmington BALTIC. +
| r. is the best have ever ridden over, and make
| the fastest time of any line in this country"
Here is another chance for the people VIII
place so much dependence in "signs" and thing
| of that sort. They were left on the ground hog
but they tell you to look out now because Marc
"came in like lamb" and is sure to go out som
other way, which we believe, because it general
does.
| MIR. oregon IL. DeusOu, Ou6 VI Luo COuust
| to the Board of County Commissioners, resigne
this week and Mr.. W. Frank Mitchell was chose
to fill the vacancy. Mr.. Todd nominated Col
| Mcintosh and Mr.. Rittenhouse named Mr.. Nit
chell Mr.. Crout voting for the latter, securing hi
| election.
| Last week Mrs. Richardson, wife of VIM
| H. Richardson, now serving out a sentence her
for libeling Judge Fowler, accompanied by he
son and Hon. G. Bohn Slingluf, called on Gov
| 70 10 oppIinotiOu for his ardOn
Lengthy petitions praying for the pardon wer
! also filed.
We hear encouraging reports about CAPT
talists coming to Towsontown with view to in
vesting money here. And the proposed water
supply for the town is the cause of directing the
attention to the place. Let the old fogies tell III
that the agitation of the water question has ruin
ed the town
Mr. Harry Wilson, who lately removed
from Hartford to Talbot county, where he tool
charge of large stock farm, has been obliged tt
give up the place account of sickness in hi.
family, and has removed to Allegany county. where
he has taken charge of large farm belonging tt
Col. Alex. Shaw.
The project for procuring supply of pure
water for Towsontown is making satisfactory
progress in the face of the old fogies and kickers
who would like to have seen it killed. 1t is graf
flying to know that we still have enterprise left
and that Towsontown is to be advanced like other
towns in the State.
The County Commissioners have granted
permission to the Citizens Association of the 4tt
precinct, 9th district, to change the numbers or
the houses on the county side of the boundary in
order that they may correspond with the number:
the city side, the work to be done without ex-
pense to the county.
-Reisterstown is to have town clock at 8
cost of about $500, and nearly all the money hac
already been subscribed. Can't Towsontown dc
something in this line also? The dome of the
Court House would be an excellent place for a
clock and the wonder is the county has not placed
one there long before this
-Messrs. Decker, Bosley, Parker and Stei-
ger, four of the old passenger conductors the
Northern Central Railroad, were relieved from
service this week, and four freight conductors
Messrs. Hammil, Greenwald, Hess and Cocker
were advanced to their places, and will run be-
tween Baltimore and Harrisburg.
Mr.. John Goodwin, who has been manager
on the Cochran farm, Woodbourne avenue, for
several years, takes the place of Mr.. Lewis Daw-
son, until lately manager of Mr.. David M. Perrines
estate Govanstown. There were large number
of applicants for the place but Mr.. Goodwin, who
is a stclass man, came out ahead.
Mrs. Shafer still remains outside of the
lime combination at Texas, and has turned q deaf
ear to all the overtures that have been made to
induce her to come in, preferring to conduct her
her hands Is cts. a day more than the conbina-
ton is paying for the same class of work.
The Baltimore Methodist oil last week says ::
can impostor, who has been representing himself
as delegate from one of the M. E. churches in
the lower counties, has been collecting money in
Baltimore county for his Struggling cause" He
is a highway robber. Give him wide berth, and
report him to the police authorities as thief who
is getting money under false pretenses."
The report of the Stewartstown Railroad
Company for nine months ended Dec. 81, 1886,
shows gross earnings $S,669.34; operating ex-
penses, SO, 826.42 net earnings, So, S42.S2. The
road is seven miles long and extends from New
Freedom, N. c. r. r., to Stewartstown, York
county. The original cost of the road was about
$74, 000 and debt of about $21, 900 remains.
This week Judge Fowler excused the fol-
lowing jurors drawn for the March term: John
Williams, Frank Smith, David M. Brian, Thos. V.
Richardson, Thos. B. Catch, Daniel Powell and
Thos E. Davis, and drew in their places Joseph
Emmart, I'd district; Fred'k Leustnauer Sd;
Sam'l K. Crosby, LIST; WIN. Elliott, 10th; VIM.
Richards, John Ulrich and John G. Kline, 18th.
Nearly four inches of snow fell here on
Saturday morning last, and if the weather had
been cold and the ground dry it would have been
much deeper. It looked like the expiring kick of
old winter, who seems averse to letting 60 his
grip. P. SIT was not the last kick, though,
for on Friday morning of this week we awoke to
find the ground covered to the depth of seven
inches of ''the beautiful"
The Deer Creek and Susquehanna railroad
project appears to be hanging fire, the subscrip-
lions of persons along the route having fallen far
below what the incorporators think they should
have been, and they publish an address in which
they set forth that unless more money is sub
scribed by those most interested, the proposed
road will be abandoned. Several meetings have
been called to push the enterprise.
The new station of the Maryland Central
railroad at Boundary avenue is very cosy, com
Portable and convenient, but there are not half
enough seats in it to accommodate the passengers,
many of whom, coming early to catch trains, are
SbSgsaaf to aRa pa aAs to ths stHiEhgsE
not without cause. defect so easily and mex
pensively remeded should not be allowed to con-
tinue for day.
The wages of the men employed by the
Beaver Dam Marble Company, in their quarries
near Cockeysville, were last week advanced 10
per cent. just in time to avert threatened strike
Mr.. Hugh Sisson, president of the company, COM
planned that some of the men had been in the
habit of carrying liquor to the works, causing
much trouble, but he was assured by the knights
of Labor that they would do all they could to dis
courage this practice
People living on the east side of the York
road below Waverly, are up in arms against the
York road railway company, which is about lay
ing second track on the east side of their present
one. The property owners complain that this
new track will encroach upon their sidewalks and
in some cases take them away entirely, to the
great danger and discomfort ofpedestrians. They
talk of holding an indignation meeting to express
their views upon the subject.
Mr.. VIM. Roussay, of the LIST district, for
merly county surveyor, is just completing a very
costly but odd looking dwelling for Mr.. Edwin
Reese situated the west side of Charles street,
near Biddle. Mr.. Roussay, who is a we'll known
builder of many years, experience, has erected
many fine houses in both the city and county. He
superintendent the building offspring Grove Insane
Asylum, in which work he was engaged for a
period of twelve years.
"A few days ago an Irishman on York
road railway car violently denounced Judge Duffy
for acqutting the colored man Perry, charged
with completely in the late murder of an old white
woman in Baltimore, and the selling of her body
to a medical college. He said he had bought
many pint of "Dufy's Malt Whisky" but since
that verdict he had sworn never to drink another
drop of it as long as he lived. He was firmly i'm
pressed with the idea that the Judge and the malt
whisky were very closely connected
At his sale at the toll-gate on the Dulany's
Valley pike, few days ago, Mr.. Joseph Phipps
disposed of a fine registered Jersey COW, 26 months
old, bred by Mr.. VIM. T. Walters, for $40. A few
months ago gentleman who was anxious to own
this sent Mr.. Phpps check for $175 for her,
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